Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
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Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#2If you're ever in the Bay Area, go across the bridge to Sausalito and look back at the city at sunset. The Salesforce Tower looks like a chrome cylinder jammed into some mashed potatoes. It's incredible how much newer and shinier it looks; totally out of place.
It'll probably dim with age, but right now it really doesn't fit with the rest of the buildings due to sheer newness.
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#3I was just in San Francisco over the weekend, and this tower really caught me off guard. Thing is fuckin massive, completely changes the skyline.
Crazy to think about in a city as notoriously expensive as SF.
Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#4If you're ever in the Bay Area, go across the bridge to Sausalito and look back at the city at sunset. The Salesforce Tower looks like a chrome cylinder jammed into some mashed potatoes. It's incredible how much newer and shinier it looks; totally out of place. It'll probably dim with age, but right now it really doesn't fit with the rest of the buildings due to sheer newness.
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Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#5On foggy days (most days in SF let's be honest) the tower disappears into the clouds, while all others sit below the line. I wonder if it breaches the fog on the upside? Anyone been up there? That would be quite a sight. I know the golden gate bridge often does, at 746 ft, while salesforce tower is over 1000 ft tall, so it seems possible.
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#6Pardon the naive question, but is a high-rise corporate office like this one (and firms in NYC) preferable to a sprawling "groundscraper" campus (Google, FB)? Which layout costs less? How does this affect management and organizational structure?
Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#7Pardon the naive question, but is a high-rise corporate office like this one (and firms in NYC) preferable to a sprawling "groundscraper" campus (Google, FB)? Which layout costs less? How does this affect management and organizational structure?
One thing is location. Very hard to get a lot of land and approval to build a sprawling campus in the center of a city like San Francisco.
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#8The tower itself is pretty bland if not downright ugly, but hopefully it will spur development of an even taller building(s) with some true character.
Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#9On foggy days (most days in SF let's be honest) the tower disappears into the clouds, while all others sit below the line. I wonder if it breaches the fog on the upside? Anyone been up there? That would be quite a sight. I know the golden gate bridge often does, at 746 ft, while salesforce tower is over 1000 ft tall, so it seems possible.
SOMA isn't fogged in like other areas of the city (ex. Sutro Tower and other areas), so not sure it will be a thing. There is some fog in SOMA, but usually not the thick blanketing kind.
Re: Salesforce Tower every day for a year and a half while being constructed
#10If you're ever in the Bay Area, go across the bridge to Sausalito and look back at the city at sunset. The Salesforce Tower looks like a chrome cylinder jammed into some mashed potatoes. It's incredible how much newer and shinier it looks; totally out of place. It'll probably dim with age, but right now it really doesn't fit with the rest of the buildings due to sheer newness.
There has been a lot of construction of the same style going on in the last few years. Here are 14 new buildings coming up - https://sf.curbed.com/maps/san-francisco-high-rise-map-2018 - all of them with the new glass look. The skyline is going to change fast.